Comments on: Wikileaks Hackers Bring Down Zimbabwe Websites

By: betty pope

betty pope — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:06:46 +0000

http://www.tusijisunde.com/i-have-no-regrets-over-wikileaks/

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:15:53 +0000

Since they’re hijacking other people’s computers to do the job, their work is considered a criminal offense in many places around the world. However, the net is a very big place and it’s rarely ever easy to figure out who the crooks are.

@Stacy: It’s not hacking at all, it’s cracking other peoples’ computers and using it to waste resources. Unfortunately people seem to write ‘hacking’ every time even when it’s clearly ‘cracking’. At any rate, the ultimate target is not what’s cracked, it’s the numerous zombified computers which are used for the attack.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:59:21 +0000

I love the fact that their message was “All your base are belong to us”

If that meme happens to not have hit southern Africa, it may have required the Ministry if Intelligence and Secret Police to figure that one out.

See:
http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/zimbabwe-defacement.jpg?w=640

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:26:53 +0000

Stacy, they also hacked the Ministry of Finance website to add a message. What it’s supposed to accomplish, I’m not sure, but they did break in.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:12:47 +0000

From Wikipedia – One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable.

I don’t think I’d define that as hacking.